Cultural references

Cultural References

"You have nothing to worry about except, perhaps, your apparent lack of gaydar."
"I don't know what that is."

Gaydar is like radar but for sounding out whether or not someone is gay. It's not a perfect science: many a gaydar has been falsely pinged by a well-dressed, neat Asian man. (See: Wu, Mr.) It's not clear who coined the phrase, but it has been around for quite a while. Not only does O'Dell not have gaydar, he doesn't even know what it means, implying that he's not real up on the lingo of kids these days.